Hello everyone,

I am hand-laying a car door trim in easycomposites pro-finish 2x2 twill carbon fibre.  Here is my workflow:

1. Sand down the part
2. Apply black basecoat
3. Allow basecoat to go tacky, ~2.5-3hrs
4. Apply profinish carbon fibre material to the part and press it down firmly onto the basecoat
   
5. Allow to cure overnight
6. Apply epoxy top coat to the part
7. The next step according to the video would be to sand down the layer of epoxy
8. Apply second coat of epoxy
9. Allow epoxy to go tacky
10. Apply subsequent layers of epoxy
    

Here's the problem:


On my last attempt, the carbon fibre cloth was still showing through the layer of epoxy so if I sand then I would be sanding the carbon fibre itself and some epoxy.

Should I apply a very thick first coat of epoxy to ensure that it covers the carbon fibre cloth sufficiently so that the cloth is not showing through and so that there is enough epoxy coat to sand into?

Thanks for your help!

Fred, thank you for your reply.

You hit the nail on the head there, I checked the product today (attached picture) and I was infact using easy composites laminating resin instead of the coating resin so that explains it!

Now I need to check everything because it seems I did order coating resin back in 2011 and perhaps I received the wrong product.  I admit I never checked until now which is silly!